> and GUIs have never been composable. Sure they have, or at least it has been tried. I think it turns out to be such a hard problem to solve that it degrades

> and GUIs have never been composable. Sure they have, or at least it has been tried. I think it turns out to be such a hard problem to solve that it degrades into proper programing much faster than a cli where pipes can carry hard. Some examples: The first xerox alto interface. smalltalk Microsofts OLE